{"id":75601,"date":"2014-12-10T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/75601\/man-seeks-information-about-paternal-grandfather\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T13:36:23","slug":"man-seeks-information-about-paternal-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2014\/12\/10\/man-seeks-information-about-paternal-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seeks information about paternal grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Scott, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom writes:<\/p>\n<p>I am appealing to readers to assist me with information regarding my paternal grandfather, Harry Scott, who died in Germiston on August 16, 1911.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He and my grandmother, Catherine, were married in Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders, on September 7, 1910, and emigrated to South Africa shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is that my grandfather was an engineer working in the mining industry in or near Germiston, and he was killed in an accident of some description in a working mine.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>His death is commemorated in his home village of Ancrum, in the Scottish Borders, on the family headstone, which records the deaths of others in his family.<\/p>\n<p>Following his death my grandmother returned to Jedburgh, where my father was born.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother died in 1967, and my father in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be grateful for any information about him or the accident which claimed his life.<\/p>\n<p>I can be contacted via email at harry-scott@hotmail.co.uk<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2cd87b24a2377cb59abad46acc7fee12'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandson wants to know his grandfather\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":75607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[979,969,5944,1217,2734,1167],"class_list":["post-75601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-information-sought","tag-letters-2","tag-melissa-hart","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["germiston","germiston city news","information sought","letters","melissa hart","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}